Pad for curling rods



1951 J. s. BERMAN EI'AL 2,564,558

PAD FOR CURLING RODS Filed July 15, 1949 INVENTORS Q32 FZM Patented Aug.14, 1951 A UNITED STATES PATENT-OFFICE PAD FOR CURLING RODS Jean S.Berman, Elsie L. Berman, and

.Oscar A. Berman, New York, N. Y.

Application July 13, 1949, Serial No. 104,452

3 Claims. -1

This invention relates to improvements in pads for curling rods, andparticularly to pads for absorbing excess chemicals or other substancesapplied to the hair for curling, waving, softening, neutralizing orotherwise affecting the condition of the hair; also as a means ofapplying such chemicals or other substances.

Curling and waving of hair has become a very important activity ofbeauty parlors throughout the world. On account of the comparativelylarge amounts charged by beauty parlors for both temporary and so-calledpermanent waves, millions of women have learned to curl and wave theirown hair. In recent years various manufacturing concerns have devisedsocalled kits for home use, these kits usually containing chemicals forsoftening and curling the hair, and more recently also curling rods ofvarious types to be used in conjunction with these chemicals. v

Curling rods are various types of elongated members on which the hair isrolled to form curls. The various types usually provide some manner ofclamping the formed curls to hold them in position during theapplication of the various chemicals intended to soften the hair, toneutralize it after a certain degree of softening has been. attained andto set it more or less permanently in the form in which it is wound onthe rods.

It is generally characteristic of all the beauty shop and the homeprocesses for the chemicals to be daubed on the formed curls. Thedaubing process is a lengthy one and usually results in large amounts ofexcess chemicals running over the faces and bodies of the women whosehair is being waved or curled. This is not only very unpleasant, but maybe quite injurious to the skin and the eyes, as in many instances thewaving and curling solutions used contain strong chemicals which, to saythe least, are not con ductive to beautifying the skin or benefittingthe eyes.

To avoid the splashing and running of the excess chemicals not absorbedby the hair in the daubing process, our invention provides pads of foamrubber, sponge rubber, cotton fiber, paper or some other absorbentmaterial, in a form that permits them to be applied as covers to curlingrods of all types.

These pads not only absorb the excess chemicals and prevent them fromsplashing and running over the body and even the clothing of the wearer,they also conserve these chemicals by retaining them to continue theireffe t on th hair and thereby shorten the time required to soften, toneutralize or to set the waves or curls.

These pads also provide a means of applying the chemicals without thedaubing process. as they may be impregnated with the chemicals afterthey have been applied. to the rods and before the curls are formed. Orthey may be supplied in home waving "kits impregnated ready for useeitheron rods supplied with the kits, or on any. rods preferred by theperson whose hair is to be curled.

To make our pads applicable to any kind of rods, we provide these] padsin one piece form to slide over the frods where the rods are of suchshape or construction to permit this. Foam or sponge rubber has enoughelasticity to permit our pads made of them to slide over most rods butpads of absorbent paper do not have such elasticity and some rods havesharp points to catch the hair. These points might tend to tear our padif forced over them. For such applica tion We split our'pad in half andapply adhesive to the edges ofeach half. This adhesive dries and doesnot cause attachment to any other object. But when two halves are placedaround a rod and the edges pressed together, the edges adhere and bondthe two halves together to form a tight cover for the rod, but the seamswill yield to a strong separating. pull and the halves are therefore, aseasy to remove from the rod as they are easy to apply, regardless of theshape or construction of the rod.

Other advantages of our pads for curling rods will become apparent froma study of the detailed description of the drawings in which similarnumerals refer to corresponding elements, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of our pad applied to a popular type ofhome kit rod.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing how the pad is used by a womancurling her own hair.

Figure 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the pad as shown in Figure2.

Figure 4 is an enlarged perspective view of our pad before applicationto a rod.

Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 55 of Figure 4Figure 6 is a cross-sectional View taken along the line B6 of Figure 4.

The numeral I denotes our pad, 2 the upper half thereof, 3 the lowerhalf thereof, 4 the hollow center, I a dish-shaped flange at either end,8 the trough or inside of the flanges, 9 a rod, III

a clamp, II a curl, and [2 the seam joining two.

half pads.

In the usual application the curl II is wound around the rod 9, theclamp I closed on the rod 9, and the daubing process begun. The excesschemicals that tend to run off the pad I are caught in the troughs 8 andredirected toward the pad I which absorbs the excess. To remove the twohalves of the pad, it is grasped at the top and bottom of the flange I,and pulled apart.

Another advantage in the use of our pad in connection with any rod isthat, being resilient, the curl I I can be wound tightly enough tocompress the pad I as shown in Figure 3, thereby I providing more roomfor the hair in the center of the pad to hold the greater amount of hairwhich naturally falls there and less roomat the sides where the hair isthinner, and then after the clamp I0 is closed at the end of the rod 9,the pad I tends to expand to firmly retain both the heavy and thethinner strands of hair in their proper position. Where the rod 9 isused without our pad there is no such expandability and there is atendency. for the hair to spring out of the curl into which it has beenformed and assume a less desirable form.

The hereinbefore described construction admits of considerablemodification without departing from the invention. The pad may be madein various sizes and shapes to be adapted to be applied to any type ofrod, and may be longer or shorter, wider or narrower for use ondifierent sizes of rods. Therefore, we do not wish to be limited to theprecise arrangements shown and described, which are presented merely byWay of illustration, and the scope of protection contemplated is tobetaken solely from the appended claims, interpreted as broadly as isconsistent with the prior art.

It should, therefore, be understood that the particular embodiment ofour invention disclosed herein being illustrative only, our invention isnot limited thereto, and that changes and variations in the size, shapeand location of elements, etc., etc may all be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit of our invention and the scope of our claims.For to others skilled in the art it will appear from our invention anddisclosure that many variations and modifications may be made withoutcopying the specific structure shown, therefore, we claim all suchvariations and modifications insofar as they fall 4 within thereasonable spirit and scope of our appended claims.

We claim:

1. A hair curler comprising a rigid member on which hair strands arewound, clamping means associated with said member for locking thestrands on the member, and an absorbent sleeve coextensively fitted onsaid member, said sleeve having annularfianges'laterally formed on itsopposing ends, the inner opposing surfaces of said flanges beingconcaved to form troughs for receiving excessive hair lotion anddirecting it onto the sleeve for absorption thereby.

2. In a hair curler, a rod, an absorbent sleeve concentrically fitted ina detachable manner on said rod, said sleeve being coextensive with saidrod and having laterally extending outwardly directed flanges formed onits opposing ends, the inner opposing surfaces of said flanges beingconcaved to form troughs for receiving excessive hair lotion anddirecting it onto'the sleeve.

3. Means detachably associatable with a curling rod for absorbingexcessive hair lotion including a tubular memberadapted to becircumposed on the rod, said member being formed of flexible absorbentmaterial and having lateral outwardly directed flanges formed on itsopposing ends, said fianges being concaved on their inner opposingsurfaces to form troughs arranged at right angles to the sleeve andadapted to direct excessive 10- tion onto the sleeve for absorptionthereby.

I JEAN S. BERMAN.

ELSIE L. BERMAN. OSCAR A. BERMAN.

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